Sherman admits to some frustration with A&M start

Moments after talking about how he has to be aware of showing frustration because his team could take on his personality, first-year A&M coach Mike Sherman admitted Monday that it has been rough.

The Aggies are off to a disappointing 2-3 start and are coming off a blowout loss at Oklahoma State in their Big 12 opener on Saturday. Fans have already shown signs of impatience after A&M opened up the season with a loss to Arkansas State of the Sun Belt Conference and produced lackluster wins over New Mexico and Army. Then there was Saturday night’s five-turnover first half debacle before losing 56-28 to an Oklahoma State program the Aggies had defeated in four straight previous meetings.

Sherman alternated between humor and candidness as he discussed what the first five games as A&M’s coach have been like.

“When I come home at night, they lock the knives up in the cabinet,” Sherman said. “It’s very frustrating because the expectations are so high as they should be. I told myself that I was going to take it a day at a time.

“I guess what keeps me going is I believe in the process, I believe in the people I’m doing it with. I believe in our plan. If I didn’t, if I thought for one second one of my coaches wasn’t on board and or wasn’t dealing with things the way I want them done, I would be probably a little more frustrated. But I feel confident we are going to get where we need to get because of the people who are on board and the plan we have and the support.

“But it is frustrating because you put so much into it. You live your life as a football coach, you live your life in this building maybe 89 hours a week so it’s disappointing when it doesn’t play out.

“When they say coaches are all overpaid, there are no questions about that but you get paid for dealing with your team and getting up in front of them after you lose a ball game and to be able to handle that. You wouldn’t have to pay me to win a game, but to deal with the adversity of it, that’s kind of what you are being paid for.